Following a beta release in April, the rollout is designed to offer large-scale organisations high-speed connections from data centres to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) regions, leveraging multiple partners worldwide.

“Partner Interconnect lets you connect your on-premises resources to GCP from the partner location of your choice, at a data rate that meets your needs,” wrote Sankari Venkataraman, technical program manager at Google Cloud, via an official blog post.

Through general availability, customers now receive an SLA for Partner Interconnect connections when using one of the recommended topologies.

“If you were a beta user with one of those topologies, you will automatically be covered by the SLA,” Venkataraman explained.

“Partner Interconnect is ideal if you want physical connectivity to your GCP resources but cannot connect at one of Google’s peering locations, or if you want to connect with an existing service provider.”

Similar to Dedicated Interconnect - which was rolled out in September 2017 - Partner Interconnect offers private connectivity to GCP to organisations that don't require the full 10Gbps of a dedicated circuit.

The offering also allows organisations whose data centres are geographically distant from a Google Cloud region or Point of Presence (POP) to connect to GCP, using third-party partner connections.

From a geographic perspective, key partners in Sydney include Equinix; Macquarie Cloud Services; Megaport and NEXTDC.

For businesses already utilising the expertise of a service provider for network connectivity, a check-list of supported offerings is now available to assess whether such a partner provides Partner Interconnect service.

“If you choose a layer 2 partner, you have to configure and establish a BGP session between your cloud routers and on-premises routers for each VLAN [virtual local area network] attachment that you create. If you choose a layer 3 partner, they will take care of the BGP [border gateway protocol] configuration.

“Please review the recommended topologies for production-level and non-critical applications. Google provides a 99.99 per cent (with Global Routing) or 99.9 per cent availability SLA, and that only applies to the connectivity between your VPC network and the partner's network.”

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